Health promotion, wellness and productivity > Program evaluation and monitoring

Program evaluation helps respond to
new developments in the information collected.

The program requires ongoing evaluation and monitoring.

Research shows that most employers are disproportionately focused on the introduction of a program and participation in the program. However a focus on outcomes increases the program's success.

Ongoing monitoring of the program helps keep the focus on outcomes.

Outcomes of interest can be evaluated through the ongoing collection of:

1.	Absenteeism information;

2.	Presenteeism information;

3.	Health information from the health assessment program (if introduced);

4.	Employee participation rates in the workplace health program; and

5.	Feedback about the program from employees, including suggestions for improvement.

These five measures provide dependable, comprehensive information about program effectiveness.

Program evaluation provides an opportunity to respond to new developments in the information collected. It might emerge, for example, that while the program has produced improvements in some areas, rates of obesity have increased. This naturally leads to the introduction of the next element of the program, or redesign of an element already in place.